By construction. Please tell me what's off.

Master study of a Franklin Booth illustration, but using a mechanical pencil. Booth was unmatched with pen and ink (and fabrics). I would self-assess my effort a "fail" on the fabrics, and plan to try harder to understand their magic juju in the realm of line-art. Booth and Dana Gibson were contemporaries, and while it may have been the Golden Age of Illustration, it was clearly also "The Age of the Big Complicated Hair-do".

There was no reference for this (purely imagination + a pencil), but I felt it ended up looking like I was sitting in on a 1950s Life Drawing class. Serendipity!

This is a fun course, I am really enjoying drawing along. you make it look very easy. I definitely need to soften my touch with the willow, it works fine for the warm-ups but I am struggling to draw with it. the attached have been mainly using compressed charcoal pencils which have created a dirty look instead of smokey.

An original composition. Scritch-scratch with a dip pen plus some brush-pen background.

In the style of John Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland illustrations.

2023/6/14. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest illustration (it's a concept for a card game). Thanks for your comment and advice. For the timelapse video click the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHHOZAhLoU